Re: [jgit-dev] Webmaster wants to get rid of Gerrit

[Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx>]

Guys,

for problems / proposals regarding planned gerrit / bugzilla obsolescence, please also consider to raise your hands and comment in this document:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dFAGX2P5cKnmfppyGhTqUIt0iGAHaRXm1BW7_hVufBw/

I'm must be a very seldom example of a happy gerrit/bugzilla user, but I'm not involved into gerrit internals and may miss something obvious for you.
I guess you probably can add more valuable input about possible pitfalls / needed work etc during transition, even if the document is for Eclipse platform in general.

Kind regards,
Andrey Loskutov

Спасение утопающих - дело рук самих утопающих

https://www.eclipse.org/user/aloskutov


> Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2021 um 12:39 Uhr
> Von: "Han-Wen Nienhuys via jgit-dev" <jgit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> An: "Matthias Sohn" <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "EGit developer discussion" <egit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "JGit Developers list" <jgit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [jgit-dev] Webmaster wants to get rid of Gerrit
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:41 PM Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > webmaster opened the issue
> > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=577152
> > since they want to get rid of Gerrit in favor of gitlab or github.
> >
> > I would personally prefer to continue using Gerrit for several reasons:
> >
> > I clearly prefer the commit-centric review style Gerrit implements over branch-centric PRs or MRs
> > I don't want to lose all the invaluable review comments we collected during the last 12 years developing in Gerrit.
> > Gerrit runs on JGit and we should eat our own dog food
> > I am a Gerrit maintainer (so I am biased)
> >
> > What's your opinion?
> >
> > Options if we want to continue using Gerrit and webmaster doesn't provide it anymore:
> >
> > Take over the Eclipse gerrit instance on a project managed vserver at Eclipse and run it ourselves. That's how we started using Gerrit at Eclipse before the webmaster took it over.
> > Move our repositories to a public managed Gerrit site. GerritForge signaled they would be willing to host a Gerrit instance for Eclipse.
> 
> Google has a large interest in the health of JGit, as it is the
> foundation of Git/Gerrit hosting at Google. We would be happy to host
> Gerrit for JGit development. What other projects are there that need
> Gerrit?
> 
> Any kind of migration (be it to Gerritforge or Googlesource.com) will
> need some planning, as we'd likely want to carry over review history,
> which requires some metadata rewrites, and the code to do this doesn't
> exist yet.
> 
> -- 
> Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google Munich